Impedansi 50 Ohm Atau 75 Ohm

Impedansi 50 Ohm atau 75 Ohm Untuk menghubungkan pemancar ke antena pada umumnya digunakan saluran transmisi dengan impedansi 50 ohm. Tapi di sisi penerima, digunakan kabel coaxial dengan impedansi 75 ohm. Mengapa demikian? Di pemancar, sinyal yang disalurkan ke antena umumnya adalah sinyal-sinyal yang besar. Sebagai contoh, pemancar TV dengan kekuatan 100 watt adalah pemancar yang tergolong berdaya pancar kecil, tetapi arus dan tegangan RF yang dilewatkan ke saluran transmisi menuju antena sudah cukup besar. Apa lagi pemancar yang dayanya hingga ribuan watt. Pasti membutuhkan saluran transmisi yang mampu menyalurkan daya yang besar itu. Nah 50 ohm adalah merupakan impedasi yang paling optimal buat konstruksi kabel coaxial untuk menghasilkan power handling yang tinggi namun memiliki faktor redaman yang cukup rendah Sebaliknya sinyal yang diterima di antena pesawat penerima sangatlah lemah. Juga sinyal video dan sinyal-sinyal RF yang mengalir di jaringan TV kabel, sangat lemah. Ordenya hanya sekitar sepersepersekian mili watt saja (0.2 s/d 0.5 mW). Sinyal yang lemah ini tentu memerlukan saluran transmisi yang rendah faktor redamnnya. Jika tidak sinyal yang lemah ini akan bertambah lemah lagi. Nah 75 ohm adalah impedasi yang paling optimal buat konstruksi kabel coaxial untuk menghasilkan redaman yang paling rendah. Jadi impedansi 50 ohm adalah untuk pemacar (sinyal besar) sedangkan 75 ohm untuk penerima (sinyal kecil) Berikut adalah artikel yang menjelaskan secara lebih rinci tentang impedansi 50 dan 75 ohm ini. Why 50 Ohm? The "50 ohm question" comes up from time to time. Most microwave hardware is specified to run in a 50 ohm system. Some stuff use 75 ohms, and we'll talk about that as well. Why was this standard chosen? The standardization of 50 ohm impedance goes back to developing coax cables for kilowatt radio transmitters in the 1930s. A good explanation for the choice of 50 ohms is given in Microwave Tubes, by A. S. Gilmour, Jr. The quick answer is that 50 ohms is a great compromise between power handling and low loss, for air-dielectric coax. Let's look at the math that proves this, just for kicks. Another thing to use 75 ohm on CATV application is: 2 turn to 1 turn winding balun changes the impedance of 300 ohm twin lead from antenna to 75 ohms coaxial cable very nicely and with a relatively broadband. Cable Loss Vs Impedance For RF signals, resistance per unit length of coax cables is determined by circumferential area of the conductor surface due to skin depth effect, not cross-sectional area. Here's the solution for loss-length for coax cables of arbitrary dielectric constant and metal properties:The details of this equation are derived on this page.

You'd think a fat conductor would always give the lowest insertion loss because it has the most circumferential area (the 1/d component of the above equation decreases loss for increasing d), but you'd be wrong! The characteristic impedance of the cable (Zo) throws that log (D/d) function into the denominator, it increases for increasing d. In order to plot loss/length versus characteristic impedance, let's review the coax impedance calculation. The impedance of coax for a given outer diameter and dielectric is solely a function of the diameter of the inner conductor and the dielectric constant of the filler material:

Now we can plot loss/length versus characteristic impedance. It turns out that insertion loss has a minimum around 77 ohms, for any cable with Er = 1 (air dielectric). In our example, we chose 10 mm inner diameter of the outer conductor, and calculated loss at 10 GHz.

Peak Power Handling The peak power handling for air coax is limited by voltage breakdown (as opposed to heating effects which limit average power handling). You'd think that you'd want maximum separation between the

opposing conductors (inner wire and outer sheaf) to avoid arcing, so you'd make the inner conductor as thin as possible, but you'd be wrong again! The maximum voltage field in a coaxial cable is quite different than between parallel-plane conductors. Here's the equation for "field enhancement", which is a measure of how much worse the fields are than in parallel plate: Beta = (a/r) / [ln(1+a/r)] Here “a” is the gap between the conductors and “r” is the radius of the inner conductor. We took this from Gilmour's book. Once again, characteristic impedance has to be considered because power depends on V2/Zo. The way to calculate maximum power handling is to assume a critical electric field can't be exceeded to avoid breakdown. We'll assume 100,000 volts/meter (actually it can exceed 1,000,000 volts per meter, but the whole topic of voltage breakdown deserves a lot more attention so we'll be conservative here for the time being). Next, calculate the field that would be generated across the gap in the coax cable, without regard to the geometry (assume the center and outer conductors are parallel plates). Then apply the field enhancement equation above (which is a number greater than 1). Then the maximum power is equal to Vcritical^2/(2Zo). Why the "2" in the denominator? That's because Vcritical is a peak value, not an RMS value.

The best peak power handling occurs at Zo = 30 ohms. We'll add some prettier equations on this page soon, or go to our page on coax power handling for more information. The voltage breakdown of air coax is a function of atmospheric pressure (or altitude), temperature, humidity, and even surface roughness. How do you increase the power handing of air coax? That's easy, fill it with a dielectric such as PTFE! Typical "solid" dielectric withstanding voltage is much higher that the breakdown voltage of air, by a factor of 10 or more. Foamed dielectrics used in cables don't provide much of an increase in voltage handling compared to air, but semi-rigid coax (solid PTFE) can handle 10s of kilowatts, the overall voltage limitation is usually the connectors that are attached to the cables. The 50-Ohm Compromise

The arithmetic mean between 30 ohms (best power handling) and 77 ohms (lowest loss) is 53.5 so the geometric mean is 48 ohms. Thus the choice of 50 ohms is a compromise between power handling capability and signal loss per unit length, for air dielectric. Why 75 Ohms? For cheap commercial cables such as those that bring CATV to your home, 75 ohms is the standard. These cables don't have to carry high power, so the key characteristic that should be considered is low loss. The answer to the "why 75 Ohms?" question seems obvious. We just saw that 77 ohms gives the lowest loss for air dielectric coax, so 75 ohms might be just an engineering round-off. We know of one text book that will tell you that is why RG cables are 75 ohms... but they are wrong! Here's the problem. Commercial CATV cables are filled with PTFE foam, which has a dielectric constant around 1.43. Guess what? The loss characteristic is a function of the dielectric constant (~SQRT(ER)), while impedance is a different function of dielectric constant (~1/[SQRT(ER)]). The opposing contributions of Er muddy the waters quite a bit. It turns out that the minimum loss impedance for ER=1.43 is around 64 ohms, as shown in the plot below (purple trace). For the record, for solid PTFE (ER=2.2, yellow line) the minimum loss occurs near 52 ohms. So it's serendipity that when we use 50 ohm semi-rigid coax cables with solid PTFE, they give nearly the lowest possible loss for ER=2.2! PTFE was invented by Roy Plunkett in 1938, well after the 50 ohm standard was in place.

So why is 75 ohms? Here's our guess. The center conductor of cheap cables is often made of a steel core, with some copper plating. Lower impedance means bigger diameter of the center core. An impedance 75 ohms probably was a compromise between low loss and cable flexibility. Original Source: http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/why50ohms.cfm